Numerous updates to the KHTML engine used by KDE and Konqueror. Javascript handling is improved and now works with phpBB and certain wikis. Konqueror no longer shows scrollbars in the Acid2 test, making it the second browser to pass.

The translation teams have managed to make this release the best translated KDE release ever. KDE 3.5.2 is available in more than 60 languages and dialects, outperforming all other desktops, including several commercial offerings.

For ongoing work on future versions of KDE 3.5, the feature freeze has recently been weakened, allowing minor and well-tested new features to go into the 3.5 branch and thus be released with the next KDE 3.5 update.

The next major release will be KDE 4. A tech-preview for KDE 4 is preliminarily scheduled for the 10th anniversary of KDE in October this year.

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none, tough they relaxed the feature freeze criteria for 3.5.x a little, so you'll see a little new functionality and a few refinements. but for the real goodies you'll have to wait for the 4.0 release.

what is meant by " Javascript handling is improved and now works with phpBB and certain wikis"?
does this mean that we can now use WYSIWYG editors in gmail, bloggers and the like, I'm not familiar with phpbb editor?

well, they might work better, but of course they won't have fixed all sites - after all, the only way you can be sure about compatibility with konqi is if the site keeps to standards (but they can't, as it then won't work in IE. and of course konqi might still have bugs left...) or has been tested on konqi.

No. This is about editor buttons that insert markup into a textarea (e.g. you click bold, and it marks the selected text with [b] or * or whatever).
Supporting so-called "JavaScript" editors is considerably more involved, and basically requires implementation of an entire editor in the browser core.

thanx for the info. I hope we'll get designmode for KDE4, it will be yet another reason to switch to KDE4 :) I'm aware though that it must be a lot of complicated and not so fun work to do even if if it comes from webcore.
keep up the good work! we really appreciate it.

I still am unable to get my netbanking java applet load successfully in Konqueror. It works perfectly in Firefox. In konqueror, it *almost* loads and then report 'IOException something in a separate window'.

Anyone have any idea about this or has faced similar error? I am running kubuntu, btw.

I'm sorry, but that doesn't automatically make it a Fedora bug. Maybe Fedora is using it in a way that other distributions aren't and that invokes a bug. Unfortunately this attitude is all too prevalent on the KDE team. "It must be a distribution bug..."

I'm disappointed in the stability of Konqueror. After years of using it, it still doesn't handle a large number of websites properly. Firefox is generally much better in this regard.

I do love KDE and it is my one and only desktop environment. But I think there is some work to be done before the Konqueror part of things is up to par, as far as I am concerned. I eagerly await 3.52.

> I'm sorry, but that doesn't automatically make it a Fedora bug. Maybe Fedora
> is using it in a way that other distributions aren't and that invokes a bug.

You cannot expect every developer to have all distros out there around to be able to reproduce a bug in his application.

IMNSHO the proper flow of a bug report if there is even the *slightest* suspicion that it may be distro-related is from the bug reporter to the distro. The packagers know best what they did to the original source packages (some apply their own set of patches!) and if they come to the conclusion that it is a bug in the original source then they can report it upstream with valuable additional information that helps squash the bug.

"Maybe Fedora is using it in a way that other distributions aren't and that invokes a bug".

OK, let's check them:

1) I cannot configure all of kicker in kcontrol. I error that several kicker kcm modules wasn't found

-> probably meaning that the .desktop files of the kcm modules of kicker are screwed up in FC.
There is only one way to invoke those modules: the way that is defined by freedesktop.org specs. So, if a module does not start on fedora, but does start on other distributions, it's a bug in fedora, not KDE.

2) I cannot start konqueror browser from panel. When I try to exec the kfmclient command from shell it says that it couldn't find service konqueror.desktop

-> more evidence that the .desktop files of FC are screwed up: apperently the file konqueror.desktop is not where it should be.
If this problem is not present on other distributions, then KDE did not forget to put it there, but FC did.
So again: bug in FC.

I have Linux (mostly) From Scratch with some of the most basic files FC-3 RPMs which I never get around to updating to FC-4. I find it best to stay one release behind FC (i.e. they release 5 and I upgrade to 4 :-)). So, this might simply be an installation issue or it might be something which is FC 4 or 5 specific.

So, I suggest that you please post the problems to the "kde-linux" list and we will try to figure out what is causing the problems.

i my self have kde 3.5.2 - build with konstruct - on fc3 running - and
it works fine. <-> but in fc4 and also in fc5 with the same way of compalation
(by konstruct) is not useable -> kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing makes mistakes the start menu looks uncomplete .. icons missing and so on.

Thank you so much KDE crew! I love KDE. One bug I've noticed and has also been noticed in unbuntuforums is that the display panel in 'Configure - KDesktop' no longer shows. If possible please provide a quick fix to this.

Here is the thread on unbuntu forums where people have mentioned this as well:

This is probably a bug in (k)ubuntu (well, or a feature because they think removing it makes sense, who knows). If it is specific to (k)ubuntu you have to report it as a bug in launchpad. KDE can't do much about it.